There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWhen an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.
Nassim Nicholas TalebProbability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Nassim Nicholas Taleb